Frank – I can honestly say that the only ‘port in a storm’ in my own life at this perilous time, is seeing and listening to your profound views and insights. I’ve turned myself inside out trying to comprehend the soul-destroying absurdity of the current political madness, and your voice is the one resource that has helped me move toward a better understanding of how and why this unprecedented disaster came into being. Everything else is an ever-expanding maelstrom of misinformation, lies and deceit; the artwork of Hieronymus Bosch comes to mind! Please know I’m deeply grateful to you for bringing this confused and frightening situation into clearer focus for me, and, no doubt, many others.

I really do believe that the majority of humans, perhaps around two thirds have are Mental Deficients who cannot function in complex/real environments. They rid themselves of their freedoms to some perceived alpha male. In return for their wealth and obedience they get an eggshell psychological environment within to function. Problem is, due to Cognitive Dissonance, you must also lose your freedoms to become a part of their construct upon which they desperately depend.

You can view this theory in its entirety under “Notes” on my FaceBook page.

Here is is in more detail:
Cognitive Deficiency in Fundamentalist Religion

The two thirds of humans that live by this must have it or a similar substitute as their brains cannot function with complexity. They function successfully only with simple 2 step variations as, “on-off, good-bad, black-white” and so on. Religion creates the only environment they are capable of negotiating. It is a result of their group think/action, and they will destroy anything that is even minutely outside of their paradigm.
Secondly, they function best following a perceived alpha male who thereby removes even some of the vestiges of choice left to them. Therefore, they are TOLD WHEN to turn toward or away from the good or bad as designated by another. It is another level down from even the simple decision making in the prior paragraph. This alpha male, (priest, pope, etc.) gives the deficients an environment they can function within in trade for the flock’s offering up of their freedoms and some portion of wealth.
I believe they have a Significant Cognitive Deficiency in negotiating environments via diminished decision making mental capacity which should be labeled and treated as such in the next DSM.

In more emotive language, the Religious Reich have an utter lack of ability to deal with a complex world. Thus, they form into willfully ignorant but dangerous FLOCKS of sheep to lay their freedoms down to some perceived Alpha Male. This Alpha creates the simplistic black and white world that their mentally deficient brains can live in. The FLOCKS loath and fear freedom and complexity more than their versions of firey hells. The primary problem is their need to remove all of OUR freedoms and complexity or face Cognitive Dissonance for themselves.

Failure to thrive and adjustment disorders are 2 things I remember from my college psychology days.
This seems to be the case with extreme, authoritarian- oriented evangelical types.
Any kind of intense self-introspection and learning to use critical thinking skills would destroy their paradigm and rip their world apart. I think this is where a lot of end-times theology springs from although most of them are unconscious of that.

The end-times theology is a way to describe their unconscious fears of their safe, simple world becoming extinct- which it is anyway. Kind of the lack the caterpillar that wants to stay stuck in the cocoon stage because they are too afraid of dying to the known and being reborn in a “hopefully” much more civilized world.